DeLand Weldon High School - Eagle Spotlight Yearbook (Weldon, IL)

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Seated: Sparks, Lane, Baker, Whiteside, Followell, Mullvain, Webb. Standing: B. Gift, Reeser, Twist, Mr. Glad, Monkman. Seated: J. Massey, Swartz, F. Gift, Hoops, M. Massey, Kallembach, Ruby, Benge. Standing: Goodmon, Pearl, Franklin, Swanstrom, Mr. Glad.

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@Ccte4 ‘P ' tafiJtecy In the year of our Lord 1963, our boat slowly sinks into the west. As we approach the island of Lula, we find Mrs. Kioua, the former Sharon Sparks, doing the Hawaiian hula, accompanied on the ukelele by Mrs. Maiki, the former Barbara Kallembach. Across the island there is a new scientific laboratory equipped with the latest of everything. Here we discover the eminent bacteriologist, Marilyn Massey, with her assistant Jim Pearl, M.D. Dr. Pearl is wearing Mari- lyn’s dark -rimmed D-W Sr. High glasses. Marilyn has replaced them with a new pair of bi- focals. We sail across the lagoon to Honolulu. Here Jackie Benge is running a pineapple plantation, and her head pineapple thumper is Gray Reeser. She says he can really tell when the pine- apples are ripe. Every day she and her chauffeur, James Massey, motor into the city in her 250 horsepower Lafayette. As we leave the plantation and go into the city, a bright flash suddenly blinds us. After recov- ering our sight, we find Evelyn Hoops standing in front of us. sporting a huge diamond ring. She and her husband, Harold Allen, run a very prosperous dog kennel. They raise the breed for which Mr. Allen is noted - S loose -hounds”. Evelyn tells us she has just employed a new kennel sweeper, Rob Roy Twist. We then go into the swanky club Lei and find Joanne Webb, Patsy Swartz and Shirley Lane doing the grass skirt wiggle. Shirley ' s husband is now stationed in the Hawaiian Islands. These girls tell us that Delores Monkman has a lot of dates, while Eileen Followell has figs. Don ' t get the wrong idea now - Delores is running a date farm and Eileen is running a fig farm. Their businesses are very profitable. As we continue on, we meet Steve Goodmon. He offers to take us back to the United States in his private yacht. By working in the designing department of General Motors, he is making a lot of dough. Our boat lands at San Francisco. As we travel from San Francisco to Beverly Hills, we discover that the bachelor Phil Mullvain lives here. They tell us that all he does is sit on the porch, twiddle his thumbs and think of his oil wells in Southern California. By means of the Super Chief, we travel to Chicago. We discover that our engineer is Sylvan Franklin. He is really president of the railroad, but is out on the trial run of a new turbo-jet engine. On our tour of Chicago, we find Roger Perkins entertaining the monkeys of Brookfield Zoo. Roger tells us that Fred Gift is a bouncer in the Chezparee . On the last stretch of our journey, we travel on to the old home town. Here we find Mr. and Mrs. Glynn running a prosperous duck farm. She is the former Jan Ruby. They tell us that Bill Swanstrom and Phil Whiteside are partners in Registered Berk and Duroc farm, east of Weldon. In Weldon, Ronnie Baker and his wife now have full ownership of the hardware store. We now motor over to the old Senior High, at DeLand. Here they are still honored with the presence of an old 1953 senior, none other than Bill Gift. He is the head janitor, taking the place of John. Well, it looks like the D-W Senior Class of ' 53 has become a howling success in the last 10 years. We hope they will keep up the good work.

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